Chapter 1781 - 1784: It’s About to Start!
Bu Yu Year One, June 21st.
Bu Yu is a term the advisory group recently decided upon for the year.
It’s the same concept as the well-known Gregorian calendar.
And Bu Yu is counted from the first day Lu Xiaobu arrived in this world.
That day was January 1st.
Which means it’s been precisely six months and 21 days since Lu Xiaobu arrived in this world.
Of course, the Blood Continent also adopted this term for the year.
And the main reason for deciding on this term was for record keeping.
After all, people from the Heavenly Dynasty have always had a good habit of recording history, and when they first arrived here and things were unstable, they were feeling their way through, so they didn’t pay much attention to such matters.
But now things have mostly stabilized, and the matter of recording history has been put on the agenda.
For example, a recent entry—Lord Lu, Bu Yu Year One, June 21st, successfully broke through to the Out-of-Body Stage, proving the previous speculation from the Blood Continent correct!
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Yes, as recorded, Lu Xiaobu successfully broke through to the Out-of-Body Stage today.
However, the breakthrough was made, yet the unique benefits of the small world almost disappeared at this stage.
This means that he is now only at the early Out-of-Body Stage and does not reach perfection upon breakthrough as before.
Of course, he is still at Out-of-Body Stage +5.
This also verified the speculation from the Blood Continent—if the governed people acknowledge the ruler, the ruler can increase the cultivation speed and even bypass the core to break through the supposedly impossible cultivation barriers.
Lu Xiaobu is still experiencing the benefits that come with the Out-of-Body Stage.
Aside from the Nascent Soul being able to leave the physical body and stay in the world for an extended time, the Out-of-Body Stage has another benefit—Divine Thought.
It’s also known as spiritual power.
Divine Thought functions like radar, allowing you to detect your surroundings without using your eyes, and it’s clearer and more comprehensive than what the eyes see.
This feature is incredibly interesting.
In fact, when Lu Xiaobu first experienced this feature, he was a bit unaccustomed to it.
After all, he had long been used to the function of his eyes, and now suddenly having a 360-degree view genuinely gave him a sense of dizziness.
But he quickly adjusted.
And then he had fun!
This feels great!
Now, if he encounters a scene where he needs to turn around, he can just, haha!
Ahem, ahem, I wasn’t thinking of anything!
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Lu Xiaobu was enjoying himself over there, but people in one place were not happy at all!
God Slaying Alliance core circle.
After that large-scale massacre and Xin Lifeng’s defection, the once aloof core circle had to personally manage this mess!
But one can imagine, how could a group of butchers who only know how to wield a knife effectively manage such a vast place?
So, 80% of the orders transmitted from this core circle were all about one thing—kill!
"Hm? Someone reported treason below?"
"Kill!"
"Hm? Someone reported corruption, personal enrichment, and murder?"
"Kill!"
"What?! The murderer is the one who submitted the first report?! The order to kill came from the core circle itself? Now both groups are dead?"
"Damn! What are the intelligence gatherers doing? Kill them too!"
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Well, without me saying more, you could probably realize what kind of environment such orders create!
Everyone’s on edge, every tree or bush seems to be an enemy soldier, every shadow suggests an imminent threat!
Some may ask—Is it really necessary? Are these people really this dumb? Aren’t they the core circle of a big organization? Do they only know how to kill?
But that’s just how stupid reality is!
Heard of "Let them eat cake"?
This core circle mostly thinks like that; they’ve always been aloof, having no understanding of the thoughts and actions of those at the lower levels!
Someone else asks, weren’t they trained from the lower levels?
Yes, they were!
But do you know the environment they came up from? It was nothing like the outside world!
They were trained in what was once esteemed as the Holy Land, with an abundance of cultivation resources, even the core was in their hands!
It was a situation much better than that of the one who said "Let them eat cake"!
Especially after learning that their once trusted Xin Lifeng was a turncoat, they became increasingly averse to those who did not grow up within the God Slaying Alliance.
In this way, they cut off the largest of their few channels that could help them understand the thoughts of others!
However, we see these orders as excessively absurd, but they don’t feel the same.
Indeed, they’re quite pleased!
"Right, that’s how governing the world should be done! Kill all the disobedient ones!"
"Correct, recently, intelligence about rebellions has significantly declined, they must have been scared stiff!"
"To think we once believed that traitor Xin Lifeng’s nonsense, talking about appeasement, recuperation, turns out he was deceiving us! He must have defected long ago!"
"Exactly, this is the world of cultivators, the strongest rules, who needs all that nonsense!"
"That beast Xin Lifeng dared to defect, sooner or later we’ll capture and flay him alive!"
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While they were discussing, the face of a guard standing at the door twisted!
He was cursing inwardly!
Damn it all!
Yes, intelligence about rebellions has decreased, not because there are no rebellions, but because no one dares report it.
And do they really think that the current reports of rebellion are true?
80% of them are totally false, just a way for the cultivating managers there to pin blame and remove those they dislike!
He even knows of some special news—some managers are directly colluding with real rebel forces, amassing wealth in a different way.
Don’t ask why a mere guard knows so much.
Because he is no ordinary guard; he is the spy Lu Xiaobu originally sent back.
When he became a spy, Xin Lifeng hadn’t defected yet!
Plus, he was initially in charge of intelligence transmission, so naturally, he has many sources of information.
Oh, he sighed—The glory of the God Slaying Alliance is truly gone forever!
And just then, he suddenly perked up.
Because he heard a piece of news!
"By the way, have you investigated the news from the southwest side?"
A voice full of dignity came from inside, it was the voice of the God Slaying Alliance’s Alliance Hierarch.
This sentence made the guard’s heart skip a beat—even though these guys are fools, have they noticed Southwest Huludao?
If we deduce from the actions of these bigwigs—hiss! Is a fight about to break out?! Not good, I better quickly find a way to pass on the message!